Malta saves stricken pregnant migrant and 44 others adrift in Mediterranean after SOS
Malta on Wednesday said it had rescued 45 stricken migrants attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing, including airlifting a pregnant woman at risk of miscarriage. The migrants sent an SOS signal to Alarm Phone, a volunteer-run Mediterranean rescue hot-line, saying the wooden boat they were in ...
Over 100 migrants rescued, two die and 14 missing in Mediterranean; France clears camp
At least two people died and 14 were missing Tuesday after a boat filled with people hoping to reach Europe capsized near Tunisia. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean, a rescue ship picked up 109 people from two flimsy boats off the coast of Libya within hours ...
Ocean Viking set to resume migrant rescues off Libya after 82 disembark in Italy
Charity rescue vessel Ocean Viking was on Sunday preparing to return to rescuing shipwreck survivors off Libya after disembarking 82 migrants in Italy following a reversal of government policy in Rome. Italian authorities identified and carried out medical checks on the sub-Saharan African migrants after ...
Italy says rescue boat with 82 migrants aboard can dock at southern island
In a possible sign Italy's hard line against such vessels might be easing somewhat under the new government, a charity rescue ship with 82 migrants aboard said Saturday it has received permission to sail to a tiny southern Italian island. Ocean Viking's crew said Italian ...
A humanitarian ship carrying 84 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea appealed to Italian and Maltese authorities Wednesday for the medical evacuation of a 9 months pregnant woman and a safe place of disembarkation for the other passengers. The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, run jointly by ...
Charity ship takes on 34 migrants off Libya and rejects port
A group of 34 migrants that included a pregnant woman and a small child safely moved during a thunderstorm from a charity-operated sailboat responsible for their rescue to a larger humanitarian ship in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya. Wrapped in shiny thermal blankets, 22 ...
Rwanda agreed Tuesday to take in 500 refugees and asylum-seekers trapped in Libya under an agreement signed with the United Nations and the African Union. The deal comes after repeated allegations of dire conditions for migrants in Libya's detention centers, including beatings and other abuses, ...
Humanitarian groups SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders rescued 50 migrants on Sunday from a rubber dinghy off Libya's coast and brought them aboard their charity ship, Ocean Viking. An AP journalist aboard the Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking witnessed the rescue of a pregnant woman, 12 ...
UNHRC center for 'most vulnerable' migrants in Tripoli said severely overcrowded
The United Nations said Tuesday its center in the Libyan capital for migrants singled out as "most vulnerable" was overcrowded and appealed for third countries to take in more refugees. "UNHCR continues to call for more slots for resettlement, evacuations," the United Nations High Commissioner ...
Italy seizes migrant rescue vessel as another is set to disembark
Italian authorities on Monday seized the charity rescue vessel Eleonore, disembarking the around 100 migrants aboard after it entered Italian territorial waters despite a ban. "Now we are in a safe port," Eleonore's captain, Claus-Peter Reisch, tweeted, before adding "now our ship is confiscated" and ...
Benghazi port bustling again despite Libya's divisions and violence
The commercial port in Libya's second city Benghazi is working round the clock three years after reopening, attempting to raise revenues for its restoration and expansion. The port was caught in the crossfire as rival factions battled for control of Benghazi from 2014 in a ...
The only functioning airport in the Libyan capital was closed on Sunday after being struck by artillery fire overnight. There were conflicting reports on the number of injuries at Mitiga airport. A media officer for the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) said four people ...
